and that there was no escape other than the death that. if you wanted to independence in one thousand nine hundred one the small baltic republics then desperately trying to join european structures and leave it soviet past behind as fast as possible. if you any and businessman the you must know now scots lives in the village of groups house one hundred twenty kilometers from vilnius he runs a lucrative business selling the mushrooms and berries that grow on his land but another source of income is also his hobby. you know if you walk around the whole park you'll cover two color matters the park contains one hundred thirteen different open air sculptures.

in soviet times the sculptures held pride of place and if you end in cities and towns. after the fall of the soviet union they were taken down and fell into neglect. that prompted the you must to set up a pocket dedicated to lets you ania's sunday of history. this open a museum welcomes visitors only around and there's no shortage of them into. foreigners and if you any in tonight come here to get a glimpse into the country's relatively recent past. here people learn something about socialism and what we went through in those times . the iron curtain weighed down very heavily on the soviet union the outside world knew little about this country. in. nine hundred ninety decided to split

from the soviet union. in his parliament led by the tout as landsburg is declared the republic's independence thousands back to the decision rallies became a constant feature in central vilnius with demonstrators demanding that moscow recognize that you and miss statehood. first the speaker said emotional words about freedom then the craze began singing literally as anthem many people how to raise in their eyes they couldn't sing along because they were so overcome with emotion they saw that something was indeed changing they felt they could no speak up with fire to fear. moscow sold the developments in this way near as a slap in the face tanks and special forces were sent to filmmakers i think. the kremlin felt that flexing its muscles would be enough to compel the goldston of the republic into backing down.

we knew we told him we had no right to rejoin the soviet union we have not been elected to do that if the. massacre followed. the television center in film as was assaulted on the night of january fourteenth. the building seems within a short time is when his independent television. i know most i feel we are being attacked why. we have been i can see as shots from all sides. they have seized the sweeney as radio center. is an anchor for a state run t.v. channel but live report was a moment of triumph for the young journalist but her moment of glory came with

a price. i knew that they used accents to break the dogs to get the deer the spache has been left here as a reminder of those events. at night foundations of people resolve to stop the troops by acting as a human shield. in order for moscow said the troops were to fire blank shells. and get it was among the residents who protected the television center when the troops began firing and galileo was injured. yeah i think i managed to crawl away i thought that i had been able to get away from that town and have to roll my own and at that very moment my leg was caught between the caterpillar tracks and the sound came to holt. now the former bookkeeper has to use

a wheelchair and receives a disability grant i mean freedom was worth that sacrifice i have no regrets i believe it's my destiny. fourteen residents of vilnius died sacrificing their lives for the if you and his independence in one thousand nine hundred one. the new states government launched a vigorous campaign against the soviet legacy a lot was built in that equated soviet symbols to nazi ones. nowadays made knife the date marked by soviet republics for the victory of a fascist germany is seen as just another ordinary day by mostly few amiens. in lithuania may the ninth is no occasion for festivities yes some people here did fight for that. has nothing to do with it russian politicians sometimes say we liberated the lithuanian people from nazi germany by responses the following yes

you did but then you didn't bother to leave afterwards one occupation had given way to another. the fall if you a new got its independence truants used to march through central vilnius on victory day but now they can only mark their holiday at a military cemetery. her government has creases about miss fear where war veterans are called occupiers. the current propaganda slant is that lithuania was a second time in one thousand nine hundred eighty four when soviet troops entered the country to drive the germans i. know that young people have been brainwashed into believing that war veterans are ok pyres the freight trains don't feel like demonstrating in the streets. made the ninth twenty ten. each of the fifty veterans here for the sake of victory

in the. despite each of them being over eighty years old they've decided to march to the city center just as they used to in the old days. a band of enthusiastic musicians accompany them as they march through the streets. supply comes from relatives holding flowers and colorful but. people with nationalistic slogans lining the streets on both sides. i. the war came to an end when the last soviet soldier left the country in one thousand nine hundred ninety three. those soviet veterans can mark their victory and commemorate fallen heroes at a cemetery their tombstones their people a lot of flowers at them. but marching through the heart of the city promotes the wrong ideology. affected by the campaign

against. legacy. it's an ember thirty first one thousand nine hundred eighty three ten o eight pm that was when the first power generating unit was officially linked to the country's power grid. this footage is from a film marking the anniversary of the nuclear power plant. the station the electrical needs of and two may bring soviet republics. the two nuclear reactors commission the plan. than any other reactors of the time it would seem that this technological inherited from the soviet union. during good stead after independence the country itself would have a plentiful supply of electricity and also be able to sell a surplus to others at a premium.

in those years because of an economic slump this nuclear power plant provided of uninterrupted supplies of electricity to customers. consumers at the lowest price we pretty much be able to. period of transition in fact we paved the way for the country's further economic development . of the. left the u.s.s.r. it sought to join the european union. was told that it could acquire e.u. membership on the condition that it shuts down the. power plant. it even received from zte to help dismantle the plant's equipment and build storage for. the first reactor was closed in two thousand and four. in two thousand and nine. then joined the e.u.

. when. we were in the reactor room of the first. that nuclear fuel used to be stored underneath. it was used to generate heat and electricity and. many of those who built the station and worked at it had to be trained in how to dismantle it. what if you put a turbine together with my own hands after it went into service my job was to maintain and repair it but in the past seven years i've been taking all that apart again with my own hands it's a pity creating something is much better if you ask me. you'd millar and valarie good newton were made redundant when the station was shut down but there was no well the work for them to go to when they were nice people working at the plants i enjoyed working there we still keep in touch with them. to

certificates a photo album and the film showing the jubilee celebrations and the only mementos from those years. the european union funded the station's closure some of the money was earmarked for severance pay. says the allowance we were entitled to after the station's shocked i was four hundred dollars if i won the so-called crisis set in the summer was cut to three hundred and fifteen dollars that's what we get paid not . the decommissioning of the power plant instantly led to high utility costs although lift you any accused to sell electricity to other countries today it buys it from them energy bills grow with each passing month those who worked at the station of had to slash their family budgets. if you got the readings yes put them down fifty two's three hundred forty seven writes

how about the water hot water is ninety cold water is eighty four that's it that's quite a lot so i have to say still we have to pay five times as much as we do eat when we were fired to back in december two thousand and nine that. the former employees of the ignalina power plant will have to survive on their social welfare packages until they become pensioners unemployment is at over fifteen percent and if you aim it officially twenty percent of its population lives in poverty according to your a staff if u.n. yet is one of the five poorest countries in the european union.

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a restitution was passed after a declared independence collective farms were disbanded land was handed over to some of its former owners. and. received sixty hectares of land that used to belong to his father. and jay's an engineer his wife is an accountant they became farmers against their will. a severe economic slump began after lithuania declared independence unemployment had read its head for the first time in the post soviet region. we had to go into farming simply because we had no other source of income now i'm pretty certain has no prospects.

their farm could well cease to exist at any time a sudden change in the weather might ruin at least some of the crops and reduce all of their efforts to nothing. there's no scope for the farm to grow the reluctant farmers don't have the money to save for a rainy day. most small farms here face a similar bleak situation. government lost interest in large scale farming such as collective farms. its policy in the early one nine hundred ninety s. was entirely wrong collective farms were raised to the ground but now the process has been reversed in favor of large scale production only large farms have real prospects. but to farmers in very hard times during the two thousand and eight economic crisis. j. and his wife were on the brink of bankruptcy their farm survived only because they

had been working on it without hired help they had also managed without bank loans . the influence of international capital and our banking sector amounts to nearly ninety percent when the creases came right into our banks were primarily concerned about experience banks in copenhagen or always low so this is. it was of secondary importance to them they stopped issuing loans and started exporting capital to help parents and banks of course all vats has an effect on the situation here. daria is two hundred years old but much of her life has passed without her father he's been working in germany to make a living. meanwhile mother brother and eldest sister live in. well where is your daddy. you know daddy let's look for him.

there is a picture of him oh here that's right well don i know north you know whenever she sees a man in the street the first thing she says is mom this is a man and in daddy. she says that just in case the man responds. he tried to work. it's an internet cafe in germany to speak to his family by making a video call that the questions we get at school are real mind blowers gain your gold with them yeah this five minutes of internet chat keeps the family in contact until so gay can be with them for real again and that could be six months away. this is typical for. which is joining the club of leading suppliers of manpower to

western european countries. and now to something more to the point have you sent us the money. yesterday yes ok that will help all deals are in the rental. in january two thousand and nine fountains of protesters crowded the main square provincial towns. as well as its capital since the start of the crisis the government has been raising taxes and cutting social benefits. found themselves on the verge of bankruptcy. people struggled for survival. for example my pension is two hundred and forty dollars in winter basic extra money for heating my flat. if i were to pay for it and fill. i have to pay forty dollars

over and above my pension. when and so nasty about our eunice learned about government plans to tax pensions on top of other taxes he decided to join protesters despite his age and poor health. generally the sixteenth two thousand. this year meeting took place in vilnius near the parliament building. seven thousand people gathered. police used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstrators. when one of the bullets hit enter nasa in the leg he was taken to an ambulance. to a we were the pillar truthout twin that cuts my trousers open it was a rubber bullets it's got stuck in a song i kept it as a souvenir of sorts. but. the

police brutality in dealing with the demonstrators spurred the public into action. an unprecedented number of people joined the opposition within a short period. of numerous protests rallies and demonstrations were held. in people that the government bowed to pressure to make some concessions several unpopular measures were canceled but the move deepened the budget deficit. you get more democracy will set in only after several generations those who once had any idea of democracy have become soviet people in spirit and so have all of our politicians. the founder and owner of the park featuring the history of soviet union says he's lucky that he's lived in a free country for the past twenty years but he notes the growing nostalgia for the soviet period. the loomis says pessimistic about his country's future and he's

skeptical about the government's political decisions. i don't think the european union will last for even fifty years but it will break up in the same way as the soviet union did the two are very similar in that they have both been a complete mass. of them. the lumas is playing with the idea of expanding his pocket modern day exhibits may soon be added to the collection. the trouble is this nobody yet knows who won't was and will become a symbol of this un yes new era. if

you're following up on my. comments are sort of a throwback and archaic part of. it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild west and pick up these huge debts important into the sheriff from prosecution. company. and when they go out there he's got weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad . but we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind others that to me a dollar bill please risk. not superhero we can be killed two of you know of a shoot me in the head i'm going to die. and. once you've hunted run you'll

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gateway to the ground imperial truly to tell us that. you can to listen to socialism or to see don't need to go publicly and read this in the can it was a photo of a retreat. building not killing lens u.s. security contractor blackwater in court two former employees accuse the company now rebranded as eat of invoicing the state department for more than one hundred million dollars in phony expenses many are criticizing u.s. authorities for pursuing this case instead of following up accusations the military contractor committed atrocities against civilians in iraq and afghanistan. the region intelligence denies claims by the suspect of two deadly terror attacks in the country last friday that he's part of a wider group but authorities in europe are on their guard after his anti immigration message is echoed by extremist groups across the continent anders

breivik is accused of killing at least seventy six people in a bomb attack in oslo and a shooting rampage on new toy aisle. in the u.k. ramps up pressure on libyan leader moammar gadhafi as london exparel his diplomats and invites the rebel council to replace them london is also giving rebels access to around one hundred fifty million dollars of previously frozen libyan oil cash the move follows france and the u.s. who already recognize the rebels as libya libya is a legitimate government. next peter lavelle and guess discuss whether the norway's atrocities could set in motion anti islamic for across europe stay with us.

and you can. follow in welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the color of terrorism as norway comes to terms with its most horrific attack on its soil since the second world war a plethora of questions demand answers how could this assault be planned and executed under the radar of the authorities and as the west focused too much on islamic groups instead of homegrown extremists and terrorists. to cross talk the rise of far right nationalism i'm joined by my guests in london he is chair of the muslim safety form and stephen gash he is spokesperson for stop islamization of europe all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see how the oslo it to.